"Earlier today, Samsung revealed that it won't update the Galaxy S, its most successful smartphone to date, to the latest version of Android. You might shrug and dismiss that as just more evidence of Android's inherent fragmentation or the need for buyers to beware, but I take grave issue with it. This is a decision based not on technical constraints, as Samsung would have you believe, but on hubris." This. A gazillion million thousand times this. Also: "It's simple: make a large high-end device, a smaller value device, and a QWERTY device. Maybe one or two other specialty form factors, tops. That's it. Update them once a year, and keep the names the same." It would make updating a hell of a lot easier. We don't need the Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch Sensation.

And for the mandatory car analogy : if a Toyota car has a software bug that makes the brake pedal ineffective, as happened earlier, Toyota better push an update quickly in order to fix that security issue.

(emphasis mine)

You know, this hardly ever happened, with any manufacturer (not only Toyota was "involved" in the past)... the "breakaway acceleration hysteria" (and similar) emerges once in a while, usually when the media circus picks up the claims of some incompetent driver who wants to escape the blame.

Curious how it's virtually always somebody, well, old - and, when the records are available (CCTV recording showing the brake lights never lighting up throughout the accident, also in cars where that's a simple switch on the brake pedal, with no software/computers in-between; or when "black box" functions became available) it was not even once what the driver claimed...

...most of the times, the ~senile driver simply panicked (confused acceleration for brake pedal, in panic pushed the "brakes" even harder, desiring to stop, which of course only had wildly opposite result)

Also curiously, it seems to happen virtually only in few places with mass adoption of automatic transmissions in passenger cars (maybe they do "disconnect" people a bit too much from having actual control and "feel" of their vehicle)